Here’s a presentation I gave to my coworkers in a brown bag session. It’s a while ago, but still holds true. My goal was to help all of us better understand accessibility, its impact for users as well as how we could better build our software for users who have disabilities.
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What Design Prototyping Tool Is For You?
It’s still not too late to get into the world of prototyping ;) Axure, Balsamiq, InVision, Proto.io, Origami, Framerjs, which tools best work for you?
Continue readingWeb Font Units: pt, px, em, %
Font selection is an important part of web design and development. The designer does not only need to pick a beautiful font that matches the design style, but also wants this font in the real website to be rendered as close as possible to her design. We have four choices for font size unit when it comes to CSS font-size – pt (point), px (pixel), em and percent. Knowing when to use the proper unit is essential for your web page rendering. If you are not careful enough about the font size unit, you web pages may end up great in some browsers, ugly in some others, and broken in rest of browsers.
Continue readingSign up for a Website: Password Field One vs. Two
My friend showed me 2 websites sign-up pages that have one single password entry. This was my first time to see a sign-up process without re-entering password. Did some comparison with 2-password sign-up process, and it’s hard to tell right or wrong without data. Designers may have different reasons why they design something as it is, but designers are not end users. So this is when we need to have some user tests.
Continue readingVery Cool UI. Google Play.
I happened to come across this page somehow. Google Play! Hey why I have never heard it before, it’s right there in Google Products page – called Google Music for now. Hmm. I had to admit that I fell in love with this visual design immediately. I like its clean, simple interface – I tried quite a few pages. Fantastic.
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